The infamous pirates of the Atlantic Golden Age of Piracy (1715 - 1725) inhabited an explicitly transgressive space, crossing boundaries both social and political, leading many historians to infer that the pirate ship was a queer space as well as a liberatory one. Come listen to Rob talk about an environment that one scholar called "implicitly sodomitical"!

Sources:

"Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash" by Hans Turley
"Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition" by B.R. Burg
"The Many-Headed Hydra" by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
Lyons, Clare A. “Mapping an Atlantic Sexual Culture: Homoeroticism in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia.” The William and Mary Quarterly 60, no. 1 (2003): 119–54.
Rosenthal, Laura J. “Cultural Studies and Pirate Studies: Straight on ’til Morning.” The Eighteenth Century 53, no. 3 (2012): 381–90.

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